Guest liamb1234 Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Ok so we have seen ubuntu running on the vega, and no doubt those smart guys will perfect!! But what about windows, would a version of that run on the vega?
Guest simonta Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Nope. Wrong architecture. Windows 8 might run, as it will be released for ARM, but drivers might be a problem and Vegas will be pretty much obsolete by later 2012.
Guest rferrett Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Also, apart from for curiosity value when the heck fire would anyone want W7 on their Vega? I mean I know it is oestensibly for touch screen devices. But every review of any W7 tablet I have read have universally panned W7 as an operating system for this kind of device. I am not a knee jerk Windows hater (I reserve all my fanboi bile for Apple <spit>) and I actually think W7 is a great desktop OS, by a country mile the best Microsoft have produced. But it just won't cut it for me on a tablet. Mind you I would find it fascinating if someone got it working!
Guest simonta Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Agreed on W7 on the desktop. Got an iMac that spends 10% of it's time running OSX (for iTunes (double spit) only) and the rest running W7. W8 could be a very different proposition though with all the experience MS will gain from WP7 and Zune. If you've ever played with Surface, it knocks any current OS into a cocked hat for touchability and although only R&D, will probably, cough cough, "surface" in W8.
Guest rferrett Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Aha that does seem pretty interesting. I vaguely remember listening to the Gaurdian Tech Weekly when they talked about this back along but had not given it much thought. I wonder with the explosion of tablet computing, W8 being ARM compatible and Surface what sort of thing Microsoft will come up with. Given the increasing dominance of Apple I am half rooting for Microsoft these days... having nearly, but not quite, forgiven them for IE6 and Bisto!!!
Guest liamb1234 Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Fair crack, just thought it would be cool to have another os would be good! I find it intreeting ppl are swinging the other way now against appland for microsoft!
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